Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
FRASER, Rev. William. b. Cullen, Banffshire 1817; a master in Normal seminary, Glasgow; pastor of the Free Middle congregation, Paisley 1849 to death; LLD. Glasgow 1872; member of Paisley school board; author of The state of our educational enterprises 1858; Blending lights, or the relations of natural science, archæology and history to the Bible 1873. d. Free Middle manse, Paisley 21 Sep. 1879. Renfrewshire Independent 27 Sep. 1879 p. 4.
FRASER, William Charles. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 14 Madras N.I. 1848 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Stanley place, Paddington, London 4 March 1859 aged 74.
FRAZER, John James, stage name of John James Fricker. Principal tenor singer in London 1843; went to the United States about 1851. d. Philadelphia 18 June 1863 in 59 year.
FREAKE, Sir Charles James, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Charles Freake of St. George’s, Hanover sq. London). b. 7 April 1814; contested Chelsea 17 Nov. 1868; built Cromwell road and other streets in Kensington; created baronet 23 May 1882. d. 1 Cromwell houses, Kensington, London 6 Oct. 1884.
FREDERICK, Charles (2 son of lieut. colonel Thomas Frederick, who d. 28 May 1844 aged 80). b. 7 May 1797; entered navy 5 June 1810; captain 23 Oct. 1842; member of Irish relief committee 1847; member of Board of Admiralty, June 1859; senior officer on coast of Ireland 31 March 1865 to 8 Oct. 1867; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. 13 Victoria st. Westminster 23 Dec. 1875.
FREDERICK, Edward (son of col. Charles Frederick). b. 23 June 1784; entered Bombay army 1799; col. 10 Bombay N.I. 28 June 1838 to death; general 26 June 1860; C.B. 28 July 1838. d. Shawford house, Hants. 5 Dec. 1866.
FREEBURN, James. b. parish of St. Cuthbert’s, Midlothian 1808; enlisted in 7th battalion of R.A. 1825, serjeant-major April 1844, quartermaster of 10th battalion 1 April 1846 to 21 April 1856 when he retired with hon. rank of captain; invented an elaborate series of metal and wood fuzes for exploding live shells 1846, his fuzes were adopted in the army 1847. d. Plumstead, Woolwich 5 Aug. 1876.
FREEMAN, Ven. Philip (son of Edmund Freeman of The Cedars, Combs, Suffolk). b. The Cedars 3 Feb. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1835; Craven univ. scholar 1838; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; fellow of St. Peter’s coll. 1842–53; principal of theological coll. Chichester 1846–55; canon and reader in theology in Cumbrae coll. Scotland 1855–58; V. of Thorverton, Devon 1858–74; preb. of Exeter 1861–64; canon of Exeter 1864 to death; archdeacon of Exeter, April 1865 to death; author of Proportion in Gothic architecture 1848; The principles of divine service 2 parts 1855–62 and 17 other books. d. 1 Northumberland terrace, Primrose hill, London 24 Feb. 1875 from effects of an accident at Chalk Farm railway station 18 Feb.
FREEMAN, Samuel. Engraver of portraits; worked chiefly in stipple; engraved numerous portraits and other illustrations for Rev. T. F. Dibdin’s Northern Gallery, Jones’s National Gallery and other books. d. 22 Jeffrey’s st. Camden Town, London 27 Feb. 1857 aged 84.
FREEMAN, William Deane. Called to bar in Ireland 1817; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; assistant barrister for Galway to death. d. Galway 13 Oct. 1852. Law magazine and law review ii, 236–40 (1857).
FREEMAN, Rev. Joseph John. b. Thames st. London 7 Oct. 1794; Congregational minister at Chelmsford 21 May 1816; minister for London missionary soc. in Madagascar 1826–35; minister at Walthamstow 1836; one of foreign secretaries of London Missionary Soc. 1841 and home sec. 1846; visited missionary stations in Guiana and Jamaica 1842–43; took charge of Malagasy refugees when in England 1848; visited mission churches at the Cape and in the Mauritius 1849–51; author of The Holy Bible in the Malagasy language 1830; A Tour to South Africa 1851 and 9 other works. d. Homburg 8 Sep. 1851. Congregational Year Book (1852) pp. 215–16; Waddington’s Congregational history v, 51–9 (1880).
FREER, John Charles. b. Malta 1802; appeared on stage at Portsmouth about 1824; played at theatres in east of London with success; kept a public house in Shoreditch which failed; went to Philadelphia; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Richard III. 18 May 1839; lessee of Richmond hill theatre, New York; stage manager of Chatham theatre, New York 10 years. Cut his throat at a coffee house, Bridge court, Cannon row, Westminster bridge, London 24 Dec. 1857. d. Westminster hospital same day. bur. Working 30 Dec. Theatrical times iii, 89 (1848), portrait; Era 27 Dec. 1857 p. 11.
FREER, Ven. Richard Lane (son of Rev. Thomas Lane Freer, R. of Handsworth, Staffs., who d. 1835 aged 57). b. 1806; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch., Ox., B.A. 1828, D.D. 1858; R. of Bishopstone, Herefordshire 1830 to death; preb. of Hereford cath. 1847 to death; archdeacon of Hereford, April 1852 to death; prelector of Hereford cath. 1861 to death. d. Bishopstone rectory 11 Aug. 1863. Memoir of Ven. R. L. Freer [by his widow], privately printed 1866, portrait.
FREESTUN, Sir William Lockyer (2 son of Edward Freestun of Primrose hill, co. Waterford). b. May park, Waterford 1804; ensign 5 foot 4 June 1812; on the staff of British legion under Sir De Lacy Evans 1835–37; served on the staff in Syria as assistant adjutant general with rank of major 15 Dec. 1840 to 1842; M.P. for Weymouth 1847–59; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 June 1860. d. 22 Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 16 April 1862.
FREETH, Sir James (youngest son of Sampson Freeth of Birmingham). b. Birmingham 1786; ensign royal staff corps 25 Dec. 1806, captain 1814 to 1830 when placed on h.p.; A.Q.M.G. 1826–1851, Q.M.G. 1 Feb. 1851 to 13 Aug. 1855; col. 64 foot 13 Aug. 1855 to death; general 9 March 1865; K.H. 1833; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 80 Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 19 Jany. 1867.
FREILIGRATH, Ferdinand. b. Detmold, North Germany 17 June 1810; clerk in a bank at Amsterdam 1831–36; a merchant’s clerk in City of London 1846–48; imprisoned at Düsseldorf 2 months in 1848 for publishing a poem entitled The Dead to the Living 1848; clerk in a bank in City of London 1851–67; naturalised in England 16 Oct. 1858; lived in Germany 1867 to death; a most popular modern German poet; his collected works were published in 6 vols. at Stuttgart 1877. d. Cannstadt near Stuttgart 17 March 1876. W. Buchner’s F. Freiligrath, ein Dichterleben 2 vols. (1882), 2 portraits.
FREMANTLE, Sir Charles Howe (2 son of admiral Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle 1765–1819). b. 1 June 1800; midshipman R.N. 12 Dec. 1812; captain 4 Aug. 1826; admiral superintendent in Balaklava 18 June 1855; commander-in-chief at Devonport, Oct. 1863 to Oct. 1866; admiral 9 Feb. 1864; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, G.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 57 Grosvenor st. London 25 May 1869.
FRENCH, Queen of the, Marie Amelie De Bourbon (2 dau. of Ferdinand I. 1751–1825, king of the Two Sicilies). b. Caserte palace near Naples 26 April 1782. (m. at Palermo 25 Nov. 1809 Louis Philippe De Bourbon b. Paris 6 Oct. 1773 king of the French 1830–48, d. Claremont, Surrey 26 Aug. 1850); lived at Claremont, March 1848 to death. d. Claremont 24 March 1866. bur. in mausoleum at Weybridge 3 April. Mrs. Challis’s Illustrious women of France (1873) 215–320, portrait; I.L.N. xii, 147 (1848), portrait; G.M. i, 741–3 (1866).
FRENCH, Most Rev. Edmund (son of Rev. Dr. Ffrench, protestant warden of Galway). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; Catholic warden of Galway to 1831 when office was abolished; R.C. Bishop of Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora 26 July 1824 to death; consecrated 13 March 1825. d. Gort, co. Galway 14 July 1852.
FRENCH, Fitzstephen (youngest son of Arthur French of French park, co. Roscommon, who d. 24 Nov. 1820). b. 7 Dec. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.P. for co. Roscommon 7 Dec. 1832 to death; col. Roscommon militia 23 Dec. 1854 to death; P.C. Ireland 1866; author of The Question Are the Government entitled to the support of the Irish liberal members? 1839. d. 68 Warwick sq. London 4 June 1873.
FRENCH, George (3 son of Arthur French of French park, co. Roscommon, M.P. for that county). b. 23 Nov. 1771; called to Irish bar 1795; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; assistant barrister co. Longford; crown prosecutor Connaught circuit. d. Seamont, Malhide 26 Oct. 1860. O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 278.
FRENCH, George. Educ. at Shrewsbury and Caius coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 11 June 1844; edited The Equity Reports vol. 3, 1853; judge of mixed courts at Sierra Leone 16 Aug. 1871; returned to England 1875; judge of supreme court for China at Shanghae 10 Dec. 1877; chief justice of supreme court for China and Japan at Shanghae 30 Oct. 1878 to death. d. Kobe, Japan 13 Nov. 1881.
FRENCH, George Russell. b. London 1803; surveyor and architect to Ironmonger’s Company; mem. of council and vice pres. of London and Middlesex Archæological Soc.; author of Ancestry of Victoria and Albert 1841; Genealogical and biographical history of England 1847 and other books. d. London 1 Nov. 1881.
FRENCH, Gilbert James (son of James French of Edinburgh, shawl manufacturer). b. 4 Nicholson square, Edinburgh 18 April 1804; apprenticed to a draper in Edinburgh; partner with John Cross, draper of Bolton, Lancashire; a church furnisher in Manchester road, Bolton; pres. of Bolton mechanics institution 1857–58; life member of Society of Antiquaries 9 Feb. 1860; author of Practical remarks on some of the minor accessories to the service of the church 1844; The life and times of Samuel Crompton 1859 and 9 other books. d. Newport sq. Bolton 4 May 1866.
FRENCH, Henry John. Ensign 90 foot 27 Aug. 1812; major 85 foot 23 May 1836 to 31 July 1846 when placed on h.p.; col. 80 foot 3 Sep. 1867 to death; L.G. 9 Aug. 1870. d. 17 Belgrave road, Eccleston sq. London 25 Jany. 1874 aged 77.
FRENCH, Sydney. Edited Weekly Despatch; acting editor of Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette to death. d. Alresford house, Stansfield road, Stockwell 27 Oct. 1878 aged 42. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 1 Nov.
FRENCH, Thomas. A jockey; rode St. Albans in the Great Metropolitan stakes 1861; won the Derby on Kingcraft 1870, on Favonius 1871; accomplished unprecedented feat of riding 6 winners in one day at Newmarket July meeting 1869. d. Newmarket 30 Aug. 1873 in 29 year. Illust. sp. and dramatic news i, 255, 256 (1874), portrait; Baily’s mag. xviii, (1870), portrait.
FRERE, Bartholomew (5 son of John Frere of Roydon, Norfolk, F.R.S. 1740–1807). b. 30 Nov. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1806; sec. of legation at Lisbon 1801; sec. of legation at Constantinople 1807–8, 1811–15 and 1817–20, minister plenipotentiary ad interim there 1815–17 and 1820–21; retired on pension Aug. 1821. d. 23 Old Burlington st. London 29 May 1851.
FRERE, George Edward (2 son of Edward Frere of Llanelly, Brecknockshire). b. 29 Jany. 1807; ed. at Charterhouse and Univ. of Edin.; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1851; F.R.S. 8 June 1837. d. Roydon hall near Diss, Norfolk 3 Dec. 1887.
FRERE, Sir Henry Bartle Edward, 1 Baronet (6 son of Edward Frere of Llanelly). b. Clydach, Brecknockshire 29 March 1815; entered Indian civil service 15 Jany. 1834; resident at Sattara 1 May 1847; comr. to Scinde 2 Dec. 1850; member of council at Calcutta 21 Dec. 1859; governor of Bombay 24 April 1862 to 6 March 1867; member of council of India 12 Nov. 1866; P.C. 4 Aug. 1873; presented with freedom of city of London 16 July 1874; baronet 19 May 1876; governor of Cape of Good Hope 5 March 1877 to July 1880; K.C.B. 20 May 1859, G.C.B. 17 May 1876; G.C.S.I 12 Feb. 1866; F.R.S. 3 May 1877; author of Eastern Africa as a field for missionary labour 1874 and other books. d. Wressil lodge, Wimbledon 29 May 1884. bur. St. Paul’s cath. 5 June, statue erected on Thames embankment 1888. G. B. Malleson’s Recreations (1872) 388–437; Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 92–7; Army and navy mag. i, 474–78 (1881), portrait.
FRERE, James Hatley (brother of Bartholomew Frere 1776–1851). b. 1779; introduced a phonetic system for teaching the blind to read about 1838; author of A combined view of the prophecies of Daniel, Esdras and S. John 1815; The art of teaching to read by elementary sounds 1840 and 10 other books. d. Shillington vicarage, Beds. 8 Dec. 1866.
FRERE, Rev. John Alexander (3 son of James Hatley Frere of army pay office 1779–1866). b. 9 May 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; fellow, tutor and senior dean of his college 1840–47; Whitehall preacher 1847–8; Christian advocate of Univ. of Cam. 1848–50; V. of Shillington, Beds. 1853 to death; author of On the incarnation 1853 and other books. d. Achenkirch, Austrian Tyrol 27 Aug. 1877.
FRERE, Philip Howard (eld. son of Wm. Frere 1775–1836, master of Downing coll. Cam.) b. 1813; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; fellow of Downing coll. 1837, tutor and bursar 1839; edited Journal of Royal Agricultural Society 1862 to death, in which he wrote many papers on agriculture. d. Panton house, Cambridge 12 May 1868.
FRESHFIELD, James William (eld. son of James Freshfield of Chertsey, Surrey). b. Windsor 1775; pensioner at Peterhouse coll. Cam.; admitted solicitor 1795; solicitor to Bank of England 1812–40; M.P. for Penryn and Falmouth 1830–32, 1835–41 and 1852–57; M.P. for Boston 1851–52; barrister G.I. 16 Nov. 1842; chairman of Surrey quarter sessions; sheriff of Surrey 1850; chairman of the Divorce Committee 1856–57; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; author of County Rates 1854. d. 6 Devonshire place, London 27 June 1864.
FREWEN, Charles Hay. b. 1813; M.P. for East Sussex 1846–57; sheriff of Leics. 1866. d. Cold Overton hall, Oakham 1 Sep. 1878.
FREWEN, Thomas (brother of preceding). b. Cold Overton hall 26 Aug. 1811; M.P. for South Leics. 1835–36; sheriff of Sussex 1839. d. Brickwall house, Northiam 14 Oct. 1870.
FRISWELL, James Hain (son of Wm. Friswell of 93 Wimpole st. London, attorney). b. Newport, Shropshire 8 May 1825; founded in London the Friday Knights, a social society, January 1858, the name was changed to the Urban club 15 November 1858; edited The Censor, a weekly review 23 May to 7 November 1868; edited the Bayard series and the Gentle Life series; author of The gentle life 1864 anon., 21 ed. 1879, 2nd series 1868, 11 ed. 1879, and 34 other books. d. Fair home, Bexley Heath, Kent 12 March 1878. Graphic 30 March 1878 pp. 320, 332, portrait; Pictorial World 6 April 1878 pp. 82, 84, portrait.
FRITH, John Wharton. Ensign 12 foot 17 July 1804; lieut. col. 58 foot 1836–1842; inspecting field officer 30 Dec. 1842; col. 2 West India regiment 1860, col. 3 foot 1863 to death; L.G. 13 Aug. 1862. d. 85 Waterloo road, Dublin 8 Sep. 1864 aged 74.
FROME, Edward Charles. b. Gibraltar 7 Jany. 1802; 2 lieut. R.E. 1825, col. 1859, col. commandant 1871 to death; surveyor general of South Australia 1839–49, of Mauritius 1851–58; inspector general of engineers at head quarters 1868–9; lieut. governor of Guernsey 1 May 1869 to 30 April 1874; general 21 Nov. 1874; F.R.A.S.; author of Outlines of the method of conducting a trigonometrical survey 1840, 4 ed. 1873. d. Ewell, Surrey 12 Feb. 1890.
FROPIER, Sir Gabriel Pierre Jules. Member of legislative council of Mauritius; knighted by patent 31 Oct. 1862. d. 1882.
FROST, Charles (son of Thomas Frost of Kingston-upon-Hull, solicitor). b. Kingston-upon-Hull 1781 or 1782, solicitor there to death; solicitor to Hull dock company 33 years; F.S.A. 2 May 1822; pres. of Hull literary and philos. soc. 10 times; vice pres. of British Assoc. at Hull meeting 1853; author of Notices relative to the early history of the town of Hull 1827 and other books. d. Hull 5 Sep. 1862. R. W. Corlass’s Sketches of Hull authors (1879) 33–4; I.L.N. xxiii, 225, 226 (1853), portrait.
FROST, John (son of John Frost of Mill st. Newport, Monmouthshire, publican). Tailor and draper at Newport 1811, member of town council of Newport, magistrate 1835, mayor 1836; elected 1838 as delegate to represent Chartists of Monmouthshire at national convention of working classes which met in London 4 Feb. 1839 and was dissolved 14 Sep.; led a large body of working men into Newport and attacked the Westgate hotel 4 Nov. 1839, tried at Monmouth 10 Dec. 1839, Frost, Williams and Jones sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered 16 Jany. 1840 being the last persons in this country so sentenced, transported to Van Diemen’s Land 1840, obtained a conditional pardon 1854, a free pardon May 1856; author of The horrors of convict life 1856. d. Stapleton near Bristol 29 July 1877 aged 93. Gurney’s Trial of John Frost for high treason (1840); W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials (1850) i, 1–101; The rise and fall of Chartism in Monmouthshire (1840) p. 6 et seq. portrait; Century Mag. xxiii, 428 (1882), portrait.
FROST, William Edward. b. Wandsworth, Surrey, Sep. 1810; student at the R.A. 1829; painter of portraits and allegorical pictures; A.R.A. Nov. 1846, R.A. 30 Dec. 1870 to June 1876 when he resigned; exhibited 77 pictures at R.A. and 33 at B.I. 1836–78. d. 40 Fitzroy sq. London 4 June 1877. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy (1862) ii, 219–21; Art Journal (1849) p. 184, portrait, (1857) pp. 5–7, (1877) pp. 234, 280; I.L.N. xxx, 419, 420 (1857), portrait, and lviii, 61, 63 (1871), portrait.
FROUDE, Ven. Robert Hurrell (son of Robert Froude of Walkhampton, Devon). Matric. from Oriel coll. Ox. 28 Jany. 1788 aged 17, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795; R. of Denbury, Devon 1798 to death; R. of Dartington, Devon 1799 to death; archdeacon of Totnes 30 May 1820 to death. d. Dartington 23 Feb. 1859.
FROUDE, William (4 son of the preceding). b. Dartington parsonage 28 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1837; worked under I. K. Brunel on Bristol and Exeter railway 1837 to May 1844 when line was opened; lived at Paignton near Torquay 1859–67, at Chelston Cross, Torquay which he built, 1867 to death; conducted at the Admiralty establishment, Torquay, experiments on resistance and propulsion of ships 1870 to death; M.I.C.E. 1846, mem. of council 1877; F.R.S. 2 June 1870, royal medallist 1876. d. Admiralty house, Simon’s Town, Cape of Good Hope 4 May 1879. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lx, 395–404 (1880); Nature xx, 148–50, 169–73 (1879); Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix, pp. ii-vi (1879); Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences (1882) ii, 14–17.
FRY, Francis (2 son of Joseph Storrs Fry 1769–1835). b. Westbury-on-Trym near Bristol 28 Oct. 1803; partner in firm of J. S. Fry & Sons, cocoa and chocolate manufactures, Bristol; a director of Bristol and Gloucester railway 1839–45, of Bristol and Exeter, South Devon and other railways; his collection of British bibles said to be finest in the world became property of the Bible Society, March 1890; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1863; published A description of the Great Bible 1539, and the six editions of Cranmer’s Bible 1540 and 1541 printed by Grafton and Whitchurch 1865 and 11 other books. d. Tower house, Cotham, Bristol 12 Nov. 1886. A brief memoir of F. Fry. By his son T. Fry, privately printed (1887), portrait.
FULCHER, George Williams. Bookseller, stationer and printer at Sudbury, Suffolk; started the Sudbury Pocket Book 1825, edited it 1825 to death; author of The village paupers and other poems 1845; Life of Thomas Gainsborough 1856 and other books. d. Sudbury 19 June 1855 in 60 year.
FULFORD, Right Rev. Francis (2 son of Baldwin Fulford of Great Fulford, Devon). b. Sidmouth, Devon 3 June 1803; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch. and Ex. coll. Ox., fellow 1824–30; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1838, hon. D.D. 1850; R. of Trowbridge, Wilts. 1832–42; R. of Croydon, Cambs. 1842–45; min. of Curzon chapel, Hanover sq. London 1845–50; bishop of Montreal 19 July 1850 to death, consecrated in Westminster Abbey 25 July; metropolitan bishop of Canada 9 July 1860 to death; edited Colonial church chronicle and missionary journal 1848–50; author of A course of plain sermons on the Church of England 2 vols. 1837–40 and 10 other books. d. See house, Montreal 9 Sep. 1868. F. Taylor’s Last three bishops appointed by the Crown for the Anglican church of Canada (1870) 23–130, portrait; I.L.N. 24 Aug. 1850 p. 168, portrait, 29 Nov. 1862 pp. 576, 587, portrait.
FULFORD, John (brother of the preceding). b. 16 Feb. 1809; entered navy 1821; captain 1848; R.A. 1866; retired admiral 5 Aug. 1877. d. Bemerton, Salisbury 15 Feb. 1888.
FULLER, Charles Francis. Sculptor at Florence; exhibited 28 sculptures at the R.A. 1859–75. d. Florence 10 March 1875 aged 45.
FULLER, Francis. b. Coulsdon, Surrey 29 June 1807; surveyor to London, Brighton and South Coast railway 25 years; constructed line from Caterham Junction to Caterham at his own cost and without aid of act of parliament; promoted with Sir Henry Cole and Scott Russell the Great Exhibition of 1851; declined knighthood; managing director of Crystal Palace co. 1852; saw the race for the Derby at Epsom 1821–84, 64 years, a fact unparalleled in turf history; author of Alexandra Park 1873. d. 63 St. Aubyn’s, Hove, Brighton 27 May 1887. The Field 4 June 1887 p. 769; I.L.N. xix, 487, 508 (1851), portrait.
FULLER, Henry Peter. b. 1785; a surgeon in London 1807–59; a governor of St. George’s hospital 1817 to death, visiting apothecary there 1819 to death, raised in 1830 sum of £20,000 for rebuilding the hospital, where one of the wards is named after him. d. Sarratt hall, Rickmansworth, Herts. 28 Aug. 1866.
FULLER, Right Rev. Thomas Brock. b. Kingston, Upper Canada 16 July 1810; R. of St. George’s, Toronto 1853–67; archdeacon of Toronto 1867–75; bishop of Niagara 1875 to death. d. Bishophurst, Hamilton, Canada 17 Dec. 1884.
FULLERTON, Lady Georgiana Charlotte (younger dau. of 1 Earl Granville 1773–1846). b. Tixall hall, Staffs. 23 Sep. 1812; admitted into R.C. church 29 March 1846; enrolled herself in the third order of St. Francis 1856; founded with Miss Taylor a religious community called the Poor Servants of the Mother of God Incarnate 1868; author of Ellen Middleton, a tale 3 vols. 1844; Too strange not to be true, a tale 3 vols. 1864 and 33 other books. (m. 13 July 1833 Alexander George Fullerton of Ballingtoy castle, co. Antrim). d. Ayrfield, Bournemouth 19 Jany. 1885. bur. in cemetery of convent of Sacred Heart, Roehampton, Surrey 23 Jany. Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton, from the French of Mrs. Madame Augustus Craven. By H. J. Coleridge (1888), portrait.
FULLERTON, John (son of Wm. Fullerton of Carstairs). b. 16 Dec. 1775; an advocate Feb. 1798; a lord of session with title of Lord Fullerton 7 Feb. 1829 to Nov. 1853 when he retired. d. Edinburgh 3 Dec. 1853.
FULLOM, Stephen Watson. edited United Service Mag. many years; resided at Torquay; author of The King and the countess 3 vols. 1849; The great highway 3 vols. 1854; History of woman 2 vols. 1855; The last days of Jerusalem, a song 1871 and 11 other books. d. in a cab at Liverpool 13 July 1872 aged 54.
FULTON, Hamilton Henry (son of Hamilton Fulton, C.E., state engineer to North Carolina and Georgia 1819–29, who d. 1834). b. Charles st. London 1813; pupil to his father 1829–39; M.I.C.E. 6 May 1845; an engineer in London from 1846; engineer of West London and Crystal palace railway, of Ryde and Ventnor railway, and of Salisbury and Dorset junction railway 1860; projected a railway bridge over the Severn 1863 and a scheme for Manchester ship canal 1882; author of London Water Supply 1869. d. Bedford house, Chiswick 10 Aug. 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii, 418–22 (1886).
FURLEY, Robert (3 son of Robert Furley of Canterbury). b. 1811; solicitor at Ashford, Kent 1832–69; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; author of A history of the Weald of Kent 2 vols. 1871–74. d. Ashford, Kent 9 Sep. 1887.
FURNELL, Michael Cudmore. b. 1 July 1829; M.R.C.S. 1851, F.R.C.S. 1870; M.D. St. Andrews 1877; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co. 7 Feb. 1855; surgeon to governor of Madras 1871–73; principal and professor of medicine, Medical college, Madras 1875–80; surgeon general Madras, April 1885 to death. d. Monte Carlo 24 May 1888.
FURNER, William (eld. son of John Furner of Brighton). b. Brighton 1791; admitted attorney 1815; member of firm of Hill, Fitzburgh and Furner at Brighton 30 years; comr. of bankrupts for Brighton district; judge of local courts of request at Brighton and Shoreham 1840–47; judge of county courts, circuit 50 (Sussex), March 1847 to 20 Sep. 1877 when he resigned; barrister G.I. 7 May 1851. d. 18 Palmeira sq. Brighton 25 Nov. 1877.
FURNESS, Richard (son of Samuel Furness of Eyam, Derbyshire, farmer). b. Eyam 2 Aug. 1791; a currier at Eyam 1813; schoolmaster in free school at Dore, Derbyshire 1821; author of The Rag Bag 1832 a satirical poem; Medicus-Magus, a poem in three cantos, Sheffield 1836, title was afterwards altered to The Astrologer. d. Eyam 13 Dec. 1857. The poetical works of R. Furness with a sketch of his life, By G. C. Holland, M.D. (1858).
FURTADO, Teresa Elizabeth (dau. of Charles Furtado of London, professor of music, by Annie Flanagan). b. 12 a.m. at 19 Edward st. Hampstead road, London 6 June 1845; made her début on the stage at New Royalty theatre 8 Feb. 1864 as Mercury in Burnand’s burlesque Ixion; leading actress at Olympic theatre 1865–6, then at Adelphi theatre where she played Esmeralda in Notre Dame 10 April 1872. (m. 10 Aug. 1873 John Clarke, comedian, who d. 20 Feb. 1879 aged 49). d. 77 Mornington road, Regent’s park, London 9 Aug. 1877. Illust. sp. and dr. news 17 Oct. 1874 p. 49, portrait, and p. 75; Era 12 Aug. 1877 p. 4, col. 2, 19 Aug. p. 5, col. 2.
FYDELL, Samuel Richard (elder son of Thomas Fydell 1740–1812, M.P. for Boston). b. Hardwicke hall near Chepstow 6 April 1771; receiver general for Lincolnshire 1794 to 1834 when office was abolished by Land tax amendment act 1834 and he declined pension offered him; sheriff of Rutland 1840; lieut. col. of South Lincoln militia. d. Morcott hall, Rutland 1 Feb. 1868. bur. in family vault St. Botolph’s church, Boston. G.M. v, 395 (1868).
FYFE, Andrew (eld. son of Andrew Fyfe of Edinburgh, anatomist 1754–1824). b. 18 Jany. 1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1814; fellow of college of surgeons Edin. 1818, pres. 1842–3; professor of chemistry in Univ. of Aberdeen 1844 to death; author of Elements of Chemistry 2 vols. 1827, 3 ed. 1833. d. 4 Windsor st. Edinburgh 31 Dec. 1861.
FYFE, James Hamilton (only son of John Fyfe of Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 1837; ed. at City of London school; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1863; a reporter on Edinburgh Express, Scotsman, Times; assistant editor of Pall Mall Gazette 1867–71, of Saturday Review 1871 to about 1878; author of Triumphs of invention and discovery 1860; British enterprise beyond the seas or our colonies 1863 and other books. d. 35 Cathcart road, West Brompton, London 5 June 1880.
FYFE, William Baxter Collier. b. Dundee about 1836; studied at R.S.A. and in Paris; painter in London 1863 to death; exhibited 23 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. gallery 1866–79. d. 62 Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 15 Sep. 1882.
FYFE, William Wallace (eld. son of Peter Fyfe, R.N. of Dundee). A contributor to the newspaper press; promoter and manager of the Church and Country Newspaper Co., and of the Newspaper Press college at Dorchester about 1865, both schemes were unsuccessful and involved him in loss; edited The Provincial Souvenir, Paisley 1846; author of Agricultural science applied in practice 1859; Canada as a field for emigration 1861 and 8 other books. d. Houndsgate, Nottingham 25 Sep. 1867. Newspaper Press 1 Oct. 1867 p. 205.
FYNMORE, James. Midshipman R.N. at Trafalgar 1805 of which battle he was last survivor; captain R.M. 1836–1848, hon. lieut. col. 28 Nov. 1854 to death. d. Blenheim grove, Rye lane, Peckham 15 April 1887 in 94 year. Graphic xix, 217 (1879), portrait, xxxv, 448 (1887), portrait.
FYSH, Rev. Frederick. Ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; lived at 2 Duke st. Bath 1840–47, at 6 Lower terrace, Torquay 1856; author of Catechism of the Apocalypse 1844; A Lyrical version of the Psalms 2 vols. 1851; Historia Apodeixis Horæ historicæ et chronologicæ 5 vols. 1856 and 15 other books. d. 1867.